The issue of how coding languages might support software developers’ management of memory has recently gotten attention from the National Security Council, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
A new joint guidance released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at partners is warning of the widespread and costly prevalence of memory safety vulnerabilities in critical ...
Memory safety vulnerabilities are those that take advantage of memory-related bugs, such as buffer overflows, format string issues, or dangling pointers, to interact with or even write over the memory ...
New guidance for software developers from Five Eyes countries implores software developers to patch memory safety vulnerabilities and rethink the use of risky programming languages. A cadre of ...
Traditional programming languages are frequently the weak link in software development, with memory safety vulnerabilities leading to significant incidents. Despite comprehensive code reviews and ...
This podcast explores updates to the Pointer Ownership Model for C, a modeling framework designed to improve the ability of developers to statically analyze C programs for errors involving temporal ...
The White House says memory safety bugs are “one of the most pervasive classes of vulnerabilities.” But, coding with memory safe languages “can eliminate most memory safety errors.” That means the ...
In the ever-evolving realm of software development, secure coding practices stand as the fundamental pillars of a robust and resilient digital edifice. Just as blueprints and building codes guide ...